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Gakuen Alice, or Alice Academy is an anime that was adapted from the same name manga. But in this review I will only concentrate on the anime with just a few digressions on the manga that will help me complete my review.

1.) STORY (6/10)
I don't want to include the story summarie here because there is already a synopisi written up there. But all in all, if you watch this anime, the story is going to be interesting and easy to follow. It's a typical "going to a school were everybody has magic powers" story and "being the special girl in school, that is somehow ... connect to everything" story. The only problem here is that it was poorly done and badly brought to us. The real and whole story of this anime that was adapted from the manga is actually great, but the anime had to little episodes to even get to the interesting parts and sadly, no season two. There was no plot twist or any actually good plot development. The story was going to nowhere and also, I kinda got the feelings that the last episode wasn't planed and thought through. It seemed to me like it was put there just so they could finish the anime, so they came up with something in a minute.

2.) ART (4/10)
This anime was made in 2004 so it's not like they could make anything special with the art, but at that time, there where many others animes that had better art and animations. The characters where badly drawn and had wierd facial features and the animation was kinda slow and "not realistic" if when can say it like that in the anime world. Somtimes it seemd like they were to lazy to add more animations.

3.) SOUND (7/10)
The music and the soundtracks were good and they fit to the anime and the situations in which were they played. The opening song was cute and catchy. But when it comes to sound, I also like to talk about the voice actors which have an important roles in animes. In Gakuen Alice the voice actors were good and they were in good sync with the characters making the whole image of them seem more real. Their acting was good and they've done a good job.

4.) CHARACTERS
Even though they are a lot of animes that have around 30 episode and succede in making us love the characters in so little time, Gakuen Alice just didn't do that for me. I think this anime was to short to represent the whole story and make us familiar with them by showing us their good and bad sides, making us feel something for them. We have the main character that's a typical cute and silliy girl that has strong feelings for her friends. By her side is a typical girl with a cold expresion and a high intelligence, but who has a warm heart. And then we have a typical bad boy and a good boy as his best friend. Every type of character like this is alreday known to the anime world, but still, other animes take this kind of characters, develop them and give them a good background story and more features to make them seem like real persons. Now, Gakuen Alice was on a good way. The story slowly continuted to grow and went on, and I got to know more about the characters, but then the anime stopped. So, none of the characters actually grew up or changed something about them.

5.) ENJOYMENT (3/10)
For me, I didn't enjoy the anime. Now, there are a few reasons why is that so. First of all, I read the manga and Gakuen Alice is my favorite manga so far. I just love it and it means a lot to me. So probably, I expected a lot from the anime and I didn't get what I wanted. Secondly, when the art is not good, I just can't enjoy an anime, unless the story is REALLY good. Now, because here, the story wasn't brought out well to us, I just couldn't enjoy this anime. And also, knowing that there is no season 2 and that there are only 26 episode to this great story, I felt depressed and disappointed, so even if there was a part that I like, I just didn't feel it.

6.) OVERALL (+MANGA) (4/10)
If you read the manga and you like it, don't watch this anime. But if you didn't read the manga, you could enjoy this anime. All in all, it kinda was cute and interesting to watch. Still, I can't give it a bigger grade. It isn't an anime for me and my taste even though I loved the manga.